24 h. ago Killer accused of rapping about murdering teen recommended for open prison

Open prisons have minimal security and allow eligible prisoners to spend most of their day out of prison on licence

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69 h. ago My sister was brutally raped and murdered by our Kurdish family in Britain's most notorious honour killing

Banaz Mahmod, 20, from Mitcham, London, was murdered on the orders of father Mahmod Mahmod and uncle Ari Mahmod after she left an abusive arranged marriage.

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3 d. ago Jimmy Mizen killer to move to open prison after boasting about murder in rap video

Jake Fahri, who murdered 19-year-old Jimmy Mizen in a London bakery and was later found to have rapped about the killing under a pseudonym, is set to be placed in an open prison

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3 d. ago Jimmy Mizen's killer is moved to open prison after being sent back to jail for boasting about the murder in drill rap music video

Jake Fahri, then 19, was given a life sentence in 2009 with a minimum term of 14 years for killing the 16-year-old by throwing an oven dish at him.

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5 d. ago Necrophiliac raped and murdered woman then sewed her eyes open for £22k ransom picture

WARNING: DISTRESSING DETAILS. The decade-long murder spree of sick serial killer Israel Keyes was driven by a twisted fascination with true crime books

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9 d. ago Freed prisoners are committing a record number of serious offences, probation watchdog reveals

Freed prisoners are committing a record number of serious offences including murder and rape, the chief inspector of probation has warned.

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1 week ago Girl, 12, 'raped and murdered' by woman before being taken to bar in suitcase

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Lola Daviet was sexually assaulted and attacked with scissors before Dahbia Benkired placed her body in a suitcase – but now the killer is spending the rest of her life in prison

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1 week ago Woman jailed for life after schoolgirl, 12, found dead in suitcase

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Dahbia Benkired has been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for the murder, rape and torture of Lola Daviet.

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1 week ago Sick fantasist who obsessed about Karen Buckley murder in terrifying letters due for release

Liam Findlay, 51, was locked up more than a decade ago after threatening to kid­nap, rape, tor­ture and murder young women and girls.

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1 week ago Death row prisoner's agonisingly grim execution as he 'covered chamber in blood'

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Clayton Lockett was executed iafter he was convicted of murder, rape and kidnapping - and his horrific death has been called into question ever since

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2 w. ago Police issue update on alleged murder of rapper's brother after fatal stabbing

Essex Police have now confirmed the two men appeared at the Central Criminal Court on December 23 and both Yonas Girma and Ellis Heather have denied the offence

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2 w. ago What happened next: how a shocking rape and murder case was solved – 58 years later

In Portishead, a dusty box of forgotten files led Jo Smith and her team to a criminal who had escaped justice for more than half a century. This was the longest-running cold case to be solved in the UK, and possibly the worldIn June 2023, Jo Smith, a major crime review officer for Avon and Somerset police, was asked by her sergeant to “take a look at the Louisa Dunne case”. Louisa Dunne was a 75-year-old woman who had been raped and murdered in her Bristol home in June 1967. She was a mother of two, a grandmother, a woman whose first husband had been a leading trade unionist, and whose home had once been a hub of political activity. By 1967, she was living alone, twice widowed but still a well-known figure in her Easton neighbourhood.There were no witnesses to her murder, and the police investigation unearthed little to go on apart from a palm print on a rear window. Police knocked on 8,000 doors and took 19,000 palm prints, but no match was found. The case stayed unsolved. Continue...

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2 w. ago Railway Killers' chilling act as children before embarking on sick murder and rape spree

The pair have gone down in history as two sadistic serial rapists turned killers who attacked women and children near railway stations in Britain during the 1980s - but what were they like as kids?

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2 w. ago Railway Killers' horrifying act as children before sick murder and rape rampage

The Railway Killers were a pair of sadistic serial rapists turned killers who attacked scores of women and children in the 1980s - but what was their own childhood like?

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2 w. ago Railway Killers' who raped and murdered women and children committed sickening act as kids

John Francis Duffy and David Mulcahy embarked on a sickening spree of rape and murder in the 1980s, targeting women and children near railway stations in the UK - but what were they like as kids?

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3 w. ago Prisoner to stand trial accused of murdering Manchester killer John Mansfield

Mansfield, 63, was jailed for the murder of his neighbour Ann Alfanso

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3 w. ago Dozens of Labour MPs say they will rebel over David Lammy's plans to axe jury trials as they urge Starmer to 'think again'

The UK Justice Secretary announced plans to reserve jury trials only for when defendants faced serious charges such as rape and murder.

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4 w. ago Death row inmate apologizes for rape and murder of college student before being executed in Tennessee

Harold Wayne Nichols, 64, died by lethal injection at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley, 20.

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4 w. ago Serial rapist who murdered college student in 1988 executed in Tennessee

A spiritual adviser prayed with him in the execution chamber

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4 w. ago Serial rapist who murdered student set to be executed in Tennessee

His attorneys unsuccessfully sought to have his sentence commuted to life in prison

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